Allow us to restore your vintage mechanical timepiece with the devoted care and professional service every family heirloom timepiece deserves. We are not a production mechanical watch repair facility. We are a specialized shop, unhurried and uncompromising in our approach taken to repair and restore your early American and Swiss pocket or wrist watch. We provide pocket and wristwatch cleaning, restoration, overhaul and consultation.
It's becoming somewhat difficult to find a local watchmaker these days, we know. We hear it all the time. One that specializes in the old mechanical watches from the hay day of Swiss and American watch manufacturing is getting even harder. This by the way, is our specialty.
As a former Watchmakers Guild official, and out of respect for your local American Watchmaker, should you be in need of an antique watch repair service, check your local yellow pages first, and pursue his services first. If you run out of luck there, feel free to contact me. I'd like to gain you as a life long customer as I have so many families who know and respect what their mechanical watch needs and deserves.
Rogin Starweld Laser Welder:
If the exterior of your watches case and case back have clearly worn after many years of faithful use, we do have some options relating to it's restoration that I'd like to detail.
There isn't a long-term durable approach to re-plating any such watch case with a standard yellow gold color. This improper approach that some use to re-plate an item with a gold color is an electro-chemical process and simply isn't durable enough for standard use. It'll look good for a few weeks and then it begins to look worn and quite ugly. I don't offer this yellow gold plating service as it can cause more harm than help.
The only long term durable approach to re-plating any base metal case (brass foundation) is through rhodium plating. This procedure results in a beautiful appearance with the watch cases final color and sheen being similar to silver, white gold or platinum and not yellow-gold in color. This process requires hand preparation, double copper plating and then a double rhodium plating. To restore your case to look new again begins at $200. This accounts for the extremely high price of rhodium ($1650 /oz.) and the many hours of labor involved.
Please examine the before and after photos and expect your worn case to turn out as beautiful as this one did. Normally, most of the rhodium plating case restorations that I do are for families that have a WWII serviceman's wrist watch made by Elgin, Hamilton and Waltham yet many other watches will benefit from this case restoration process. Send along a detailed description of your watch and a digital photo if possible and I'll be glad to determine suitability and an estimated cost of this spectacular case restoration service.
POCKETWATCHES: The pocket watches that I will consider for restoration are the factories of : Ball, Columbus Watch Company, Elgin, Hamilton, Hampden, E. Howard, Howard Watch Co., Illinois, Peoria Watch co., Rockford, Seth Thomas, South Bend, United States Watch Co., U.S. Watch Co., and Waltham.
Other watches we would be interested in repairing:
American Waltham U.S Watch Co. South Bend Watch Co. Seth Thomas Watch do. Cheshire Watch Co. Cornell Watch Co George Reed Independent Watch Co. New York Watch Co. Melrose Watch Co. E.F. Bowman Nashua Watch Co. Bannatyne Watch Co. Western Watch Co. D.D. PalmerRemont Watch Co. Wichita Watch Co. Adams & Perry Watch Co. James & Henry Pitkin Lancaster Watch Co. Boston Watch Co. Illinois Watch Co. |
Fitchburg Watch bo. Rock Island Watch Co. J.P.Stevens Watch Co. American Waltham Watch Co. Mosart Watch Co. Warren Manufacturing Co. National Watch Co. Trenton Watch do. B.D. Bingham E. Howard and Co. Peoria Watch co Potter Albert Watch Co. Hampden Watch Co. Ingersol Luther Goddard Waterbury Columbus Watch Co. W.E. Harper Rockford Watch Co. Washington Watch Co. Newark Watch Co. |
U.S. Watch Co. Appleton, Tracy & Co. Thomas Harland Benedict & Burham Charles Fasoltd Manhatten Watch Co. Ball Watch Co. South Bend Watch Co. American Repeating Watch Co. Aurora Watch Co. Appleton watch Co. Auburndale Watch Co. Hamilton Watch Co. Jacob Custer Freeport Watch Co. Herman Vod der Heydt Non-Magnetic Watch Co.E. Ingraham New England Watch Co., Watch Co. Otay Watch Co. |
WRISTWATCHES: We will consider for restoration any high grade manual wind, or automatic Swiss watch of 15 jewels or better of the following manufacture:
Seeland Bueche-Girod Charles Nicolet Orvin Elgin Weltall Ollendorff Nivada Glashutte Berg Shield Buren Pronto Hayden Cortebert Bovet Harvel Louvig Frodsham J.E. Watch Co. Benson Framont Imperial Gruen Breguet Aristo Continental Dunhill Jardur Roamer Lang Uhr Newmark Nicewatch Co. Opel Friedli Ace Acro Doxa Golay Sheffield Lusina Vacheron Illinois Niton Ofair Didisheim Turler Rulon Ulysse Nardin Ogival Winton Boulevard Omega Frey Wig Wag Faith Kurth Levrette International Movado Lucien Piccard Rockford Alton Mido Wakmann Rapid Haste Borel Boucheron Avalon |
Chopard Goering Dugena Fairfax Agassiz Octo Patek Philippe Olympia Watex Certina Henda LeCoultre Driva Mars Regina Gubelin Fontainemelon Minerva Uhrenfabrik Glashutte Provita Perpetual Watch Co. Eloga Delbana Cartier Longines Ultimor Ardath Harwood Garland Kord Revue Duodial Parker Tavannes Guinand Bucherer Arbi Clebar Rolex Stowa Electra Hever LIbela Nicolet Watch Unitas Moriva Tornex-Rayville Girard-Perregaux Breitling Alpina Titus Westend Lucerne Weldon Hy. Moser & Cie Olma Rembrant Kelbert Semca Louis Van Cleef & Arpels Harman Smith PiagetPreesent Hydepark Concord Eska |
Asprey Verno Alavente Glycine Condal Perfine Monte Rocail Orfina Wittnauer Hebdomas Vulcain Seth Thomas Emerson Normandie Timecraft Americus Grana Felca Arsa Kingston Yale Mt. Vernon Univer Tiffany Blancpain Admes South Bend Phillepe Watch Co. Huguenin Welsbro Carlton Cyma Evans Ebel Favre Leuba Aramis Eterna Croton Germinal Lavina Invicta Touchon Orator LePhare Lemania Cawford Rolls Tourneau Record Baylor Rotary Hermes Schultz Mimo Excelsior Baume & Mercier Jaeger Benrus Rima Lyceum Kent Warwick Beltone WhiteStar Universal |
Standard Monarch Angelus Audemars Piguet Exactus P. Garnier Zodiac Gallet Urania Corum Laco Mar Nicolet Leonidas Wyler Arctus Trebex Juvenia Zentra Butex Montbrilliant Crown Geneve Tissot A. Lange & Sohne Eberhard Enicar Pabro Patria Bulova Hamilton Ekegren Jules Jurgensen Lip Sperina Hilton Dome Alsta Helvetia Cornavin Hallmark Altus Ball Daynite Central Audax Alpha Rado Zenith Lorton Harvard Sigma National P. Buhre Coronet Kelton Mappin Marlys Autdrist Lancel Helbros Roxy Hafis Hampden Kelek |
Models of watches that we repair:
Sea Scout Sea Skip Donald Fleetwood Livingston Todd Stadium the Curtis Corvet Blake Bartley Quadron Cranston Alan Curvex Steeldon Caroline Prentice Piccadilly Lincrest Culver Randolph Wilkinson Courier Pimlico Wayne Howard Brockton Glenn Curtis Winthrop Spur Sea Ranger Gulfport Beau Royal Paige Sutton Piping Rock Tyron Vardon Cavalier Huntley Bentley Dyson Portia Adrian Andrews Tempus Jason Whitney Gladstone Bostonian Chadwick Edgewater Cameron Windsor Dennis Attache Russell Carlyle Prescott Derby Varsity Curtis Pierre Norfolk Rutgers Top Time Seville Sheldon ipso-vox Chatham dunkirk Martin Arlington Radburn Lester Essex Drew Dwight Gordon Rolland Fischer Brandon Sea Hawk Cedric Sea-crest Lakeland Dartmouth Clinton Beldon Romanesquen Ross Frontenac Ashley Dodson Elliot Emery Ramsey Flint Ridge Stanford Hudson Vincent Chesterfield Oval Sea mate Avigo Stuart Baronet Beau Brummel Whitman Brent Majesty Gardner Ward Blair Myron Manhattan Guardsman |
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